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Hurricane Maria was a deadly Category 5 hurricane that devastated the northeastern Caribbean in September 2017, particularly in the U.S. territory of Puerto Rico, which accounted for 2,975 of the 3,059 deaths.
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- Effects of Hurricane Maria in Puerto Rico
- Sept. 16
- Sept. 17-18
- Sept. 19-20
- Sept. 21-23
- Sept. 24-27
- Sept. 28-30
Maria was born from a disturbance off the west coast of Africa on Sept. 12. On Sept. 16, the disturbance organized enough to become a tropical depressionabout 600 nautical miles east of Barbados. It was named Tropical Storm Maria that same day.
Maria rapidly intensified, becoming a hurricane by the afternoon of Sept. 17, a major hurricane by mid-morning on Sept. 18, and a Category 5 hurricane with maximum sustained winds of 160 mph that evening. Keeping this intensity, Maria made landfall in Dominica shortly before midnight.
Dominica’s mountainous landscape weakened Maria to a high-end Category 4, but in the pre-dawn hours of Sept. 19, the storm regained Category 5 strength, this time with maximum sustained winds of 173 mph—the storm’s peak intensity. After passing within 30 miles of St. Croix in the U.S. Virgin Islands, a slightly weakened Maria—which downgraded to a ...
On Sept. 21, hours after exiting Puerto Rico, Maria re-intensified yet again, this time to a Category 3. Maria’s center passed 30 to 40 nautical miles east of the Turks and Caicos Islands on Sept. 22.
Maria remained a major hurricane until Sept. 24, when it downgraded to a strong Category 2 storm. It weakened to a Category 1 later that night. Over the next few days, the storm tracked parallel to the U.S. coastline, continuing to gradually weaken. It came within 150 miles of Cape Hatteras, North Carolina, on Sept. 27, bringing tropical-storm-forc...
On Sept. 28, Maria took a sharp turn eastward out into the open Atlantic, where it weakened to a tropical storm. On the morning of Sept. 30, Maria became post-tropical. It dissipated while over the north Atlantic, about 400 nautical miles southwest of Ireland.
Hurricane Maria was a deadly Category 5 hurricane that devastated the northeastern Caribbean in September 2017, particularly in the U.S. territory of Puerto Rico, which accounted for 2,975 of the 3,059 deaths.
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Oct 4, 2017 · October 4, 2017. What is happening in Puerto Rico? Since the storm made landfall on September 20, Hurricane Maria has wreaked havoc on the island, causing a level of widespread destruction and...
Aug 1, 2018 · The State of the Climate in 2017 report includes a summary of the devastation in Puerto Rico from Hurricane María, describing damage so widespread and severe that thousands of residents of the Caribbean island moved to the U.S. mainland in the aftermath.
